Ideally you are hitting the wilds with more equipment than this; including a larger/fixed blade knife, water container and cooking pan. However with enough practice and skill this small tin of equipment will provide so much for you.

With this tin you have the equipment to make shelter, make fire, make fishing rod, make snare, make mattress, make blanket, fix gear and signal for help.

11 December 2015

We have three one-day/stand-alone Bushcraft Skills dates coming up just before Christmas. These are part of the Bushcraft Survival Skills 3 syllabus (BS3). However you can join them having completed previous training with us; or as a complete beginner.

This means that your climbing system needs to be in a straight line at all times.

Anchors, belayer, climber; in whatever order the system is set up; always need to be in a straight line.

If things are out of straight line and the climber slips then the climber pendulums across the rock face and these photos show what can happen to the climbing rope, as it moves across the rock face back into a straight line again.

12 November 2015

Took the below quote from an article in Backcountry Magazine regarding a Snow & Avalanche Workshop in Seattle.

Ask More Often: What If I’m Wrong?Margaret Wheeler, the second woman in the U.S. to complete her IFMGA
certification, also delved into uncertainty, discussing overconfidence
and overexposure in the mountains. “Uncertainty is underrepresented in
our decision-making process,” Wheeler said, suggesting we should do more
to quantify what we don’t know before making a backcountry decision.
“Ask: What is our list of uncertainties?” Wheeler said. “We have to
match increased exposure with increased vigilance.”

Really interesting piece and I think we can borrow it here for either personal mountaineering/climbing/kayaking or as part of our professional guiding for mountaineering/climbing/kayaking.

Ask 'What If I'm Wrong' or 'What If Things Go Wrong' in terms of having some simple response actions planned in advance of something going wrong.